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[preface]
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== List of topics
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This is a list of grouped topics that might be covered in the book.
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It will lead to the creation of an index.
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The grouping is obviously not unique and there is no notion of priority compiled to this proposal.
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Some topics occur in several groups.
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=== Review of Bitcoin
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Review of some mechanics and terms from Mastering Bitcoin. This would probably be rather technical.
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* address
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* Asymmetric Cryptographic System
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* bech32
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* bip
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* bitcoin
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* Bitcoin Mining
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* block
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* Blockchain
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* coinbase
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* coinbase transaction
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* cold storage
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* confirmations
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* Digital Signature
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* double-spending
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* ECDSA
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* fees
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* hash
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* Hash Function
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* Locktime and CLTV
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* multisignature
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* output
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* P2PKH
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* P2SH
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* P2SH address
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* P2WPKH
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* P2WSH
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* Proof-of-Work
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* RIPEMD-160
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* Sequence and CSV
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* Script
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* ScriptPubKey (aka pubkey script)
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* ScriptSig (aka signature script)
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* secret key (aka private key)
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* Segregated Witness
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* SHA
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* Simplified Payment Verification (SPV)
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* soft fork
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* Transaction
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* unspent transaction output (UTXO)
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* wallet
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=== Motivation: Why the Lightning Network
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* clear definition what does scaling of a computer system mean? (I realize that discussions often fail because that term is not well defined among participants. A similar definition might be necessary for Decentralized and trustless)
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* Scale Payments (amount of possible payments independent of block size / data base size)
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* increase privacy (not all payments stored on chain)
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* decrease settlement time (get rid of confirmations)
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=== Using / transacting Bitcoin with the Lightning Network
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This group of topics would be end user oriented and is rather non technical.
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* channels:
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** Balance
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** Capacity
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** Closing
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** Maximal channel size
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** Opening
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** Peer
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* install a wallet / node
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** cellphone
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** desktop
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** specialized hardware (RaspiBlitz)
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** server / full node
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* make a payment
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** fees
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** invoice
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** maximal payment size
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** payment hash
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** Preimage
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* pitfalls
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** don't double pay!
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** stay online / connected
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=== Operating and securing a Lightning Network node
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While also important for end users to be aware of some of the topics here it is primarily meant for professionals and developers.
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* backup & restore a Lightning Network node
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* configure a Lightning network Node
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** max concurrent htlc in flight
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** min channel size
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** max channel size
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** cltv_expiry delta
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** routing fees
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** min / max htlc msat
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** network (mainnet, testnet, regtest)
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** address / port / tor
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** funding confirm
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** logging
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* Denial of service attack vectors
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* hardware wallet
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* hot wallet hot wallet risk
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* uptime
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* watchtowers
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=== BOLT 1.0
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A summary of how the Lightning Network protocol works.
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* BOLT
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* Penalty Transaction
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* Closing Transaction
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* Commitment Transaction
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* Contract
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* Diffie Hellman Key Exchange
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* Ephemeral Key
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* features
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** local
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** global
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* Funding Transaction
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* Gossip Protocol
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* Hashlocks
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* HTLC
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* Invoice
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* It's ok to be odd rule
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* Locktime
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* Millisatoshi
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* Noise_XK
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* Onion Routing
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* Penalty Transaction
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* Relative Timelock
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* Revocable Sequence Maturity Contract
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* Revocation Key
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* Second stage HTLC
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* Source-Based Routing
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* SPHINX Mix Format
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* Transaction Malleability
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* Transport Layer
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=== BOLT 1.1 / 2.0
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Future trends and developments on the Lightning Network.
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* discreet log contracts
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* dual funded channels
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* eltoo Channels
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** multiparty channels
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** Channel Factories
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* multipath Payments
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* scriptless scripts
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* splicing
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* watchtowers
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* wumbo
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* Rendez vous Routing
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More ideas could be taken from https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lightning-rfc/wiki/Lightning-Specification-1.1-Proposal-States
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=== Lightning Network as a Data Set & Software System
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Everything about the Lightning Network that is not covered by the BOLTs but important for developers.
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* Autopilot
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* centrality
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* c-lightning
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* Eclair
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* graph (theory)
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* lnd
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* privacy
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* social network analysis
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* Topology
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* Traffic analysis
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* pathfinding
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** AMP https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2018-February/000993.html
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** JIT https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2019-March/001891.html
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** Trampoline routing https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2019-April/001950.html
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** permuteroute https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/pull/2890
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** Real time strategy games https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2019-August/002095.html
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=== Building on top of the Lightning Network
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Creating Lightning Network Applications:
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* Client libraries
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* Common pitfalls
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** concurrent payments in custodial settings
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* example lapps
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** paywall Example https://github.com/renepickhardt/HackALapp
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** streaming example: currently working on a dollar cost averaging (DCA) streaming service to your own custody, that allows one to be able stack sats on lightning network. Will provide links to example soonish.
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** more ideas: https://bitcoingames2019.devpost.com/submissions
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* btc pay server
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* Turbo Channels https://medium.com/@akumaigorodski/instant-channels-enable-safe-lightning-payments-with-unconfirmed-funding-8d640defa183
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=== Comparisons and examples
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The following is a loose list of potential infoboxes, tables and dropins which will most likely make it to some part of the book.
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They have particular illustrative purpose and are therefore collected separately to keep better track of them.
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==== Comparisons
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* payment process on Bitcoin vs payment process on the lightning network
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* transaction vs payment
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* capacity vs balance
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* routing fees vs mining fees
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* private vs public channel (difficulty to have truly private channels that don't reveal over time on the blockchain?)
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* source based routing vs best effort routing (onion routing vs IP forwarding)
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* eltoo vs RSMC (?)
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* private key vs fully signed transaction (it can be seen as almost the same in the sense of ownership)
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* locked bitcoin vs freely movable bitcoin (on-chain vs. off-chain bitcoin)
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* routing vs path finding
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==== Examples
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TBA.
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==== Properties
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* the seven ingredients for a payment channel c.f: https://youtu.be/AcP3czefanM
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** 2-2 musig address
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** funding transaction to open the channel (without possibility to malleate the transaction)
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** commitment transaction to encode the balance of the channel
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** a time lock to remove trust
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** a communication protocol for partners exchange data outside of the bitcoin network
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** asymmetrical information (unless we switch to eltoo but even there not all keys are shared but channel state is symmetric)
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** game theoretic and economical incentives to follow the protocol
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